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page 120th-century anthropologists
Huang Xianfan
Chinese historian, ethnologist and educator (1899-1982)
Ashraf Ghani
President of Afghanistan from 2014 to 2021 (17 11 2006
Richard Leakey
kenyan paleoanthropologist, conservationist, and politician (1944-2022)
Knud Rasmussen
Danish explorer and anthropologist
Cheikh Anta Diop
Senegalese politician, essayist (1923–1986)
Eduardo Chivambo Mondlane
Portuguese anthropologist
Jalal Al-e-Ahmad
writer, thinker, and social and political critic (1923-1969)
Julio Caro
Spanish academic (1914–1995)
Fei Xiaotong
Chinese anthropologist, sociologist (1910-2005)
Mouloud Mammeri
Algerian Amazigh linguist and writer (1917–1989)
Raymond Firth
ethnologist from New Zealand
Peter Freuchen
Danish writer, explorer and anthropologist (1886-1957)
Albert Sánchez Piñol
Spanish anthropologist and novelist
Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark
anthropologist, specialising in Tibetan beliefs and customs
Maria Czaplicka
Polish anthropologist (1884–1921)
Alfred Métraux
Swiss anthropologist (1902-1963)
Jan Czekanowski
Polish anthropologist, ethnographer, statistician and linguist (1882–1965)
Hilma Granqvist
Finnish anthropologist (1890–1972)
Fernando Ortiz Fernández
Cuban writer (1881–1969)
Paulus Edward Pieris Deraniyagala
Sri Lankan academic (1900–1976)
Roberts Ķīlis
Latvian politician and social anthropologist (1968–2022)
Lydia Cabrera
Afro-Cuban anthropologist (1899-1991)
Ruy Duarte de Carvalho
Angolan film director (1941-2010)
Virginia Gutiérrez de Pineda
Colombian anthropologist (1921–1999)
Paul Kirchhoff
German anthropologist (1900-1972)
Clara Passafari
Argentine anthropologist (1930–1994)
Mercedes Doretti
Argentine anthropologist
Hugo Bernatzik
Austrian anthropologist, photographer and art collector (1897-1953)
Giorgi Chitaia
Georgian ethnographer
Myrna Elizabeth Mack Chang
Guatemalan anthropologist
Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf
Austrian ethnologist (1909–1995)
Ali Al-Wardi
Iraqi sociologist
Bertil Lundman
Swedish anthropologist (1899-1993)
Ralph Regenvanu
Ni-Vanuatu anthropologist
Frederik Jacobus Johannes Buytendijk
Dutch scientist (1887–1974)
Jacques Faitlovitch
Jewish Orientalist
Juan Friede Alter
Ukrainian-Colombian historian
Antanas Poška
Lithuanian traveler and anthropologist (1903–1992)
Angèle Gnonsoa
Ivorian politician
Derek Freeman
New Zealand anthropologist (1916-2001)
Antonio Fraguas Fraguas
Spanish poet who wrote in Galician
Phraya Anuman Rajadhon
Thai nobleman
Henning Haslund-Christensen
Danish travel writer and explorer (1896–1948)
Jan Petrus Benjamin de Josselin de Jong
Dutch anthropologist (1886-1964)
Suzanne Comhaire-Sylvain
Haitian anthropologist (1898-1975)
Reina Torres de Araúz
Panamanian anthropologist (1932–1982)
Alfredo Torero
Peruvian anthropologist
Wilhelm Koppers
Austrian anthropologist (1886–1961)
Achola Pala
a Kenyan anthropologist, sociologist, and women's policy specialist
Jan Brøgger
Norwegian psychologist and social anthropologist (1936–2006)
Branislava Sušnik
Slovenian-Paraguayan anthropologist
Paul Schebesta
German priest (1887–1968)
Teuku Jacob
Indonesian paleoanthropologist (1929-2007)
Hiromichi Kono
Japanese entomologist (1905–1963)
Nikolai Girenko
Russian ethnologist and activist (1940-2004)
Gananath Obeyesekere
Sri Lankan anthropologist
Carlo Tullio Altan
Italian anthropologist (1916-2005)
Jovan Trifunoski
Serbian and Macedonian geographer and anthropologist
Maurizio Bettini
Italian classical philologist, latinist and anthropologist
Robert von Heine-Geldern
Austrian anthropologist, art historian and archaeologist (1885–1968)